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Metro 431 — Best Schools/Cafes — Available Now

Auckland's Best Schools, Chris Parker, Dalton Papalii, Vladimir Putin, the sad fate of the iMax building and more!

Metro 431 — Best Schools/Cafes — Available Now

Jun 16, 2021 What's On

We’ve made another issue!

The Winter 2021 issue is out on newsstands 17 June. Somehow we’ve managed to make it even bigger, with more pages, words and photos than any Metro since, like, 1989. Or maybe before.

What’s in it?

Features

Our annual Best Schools special thanks to Land Rover Discovery, including results charts of (nearly) every school in Auckland, a look at the draft New Zealand history curriculum, a photo essay of classrooms in absentia and Chris Hipkins on getting te reo Māori back into schools.

How Chris Parker felt.

What the hell is going on with the abandoned IMAX centre?

Top 50 cafes.

Plus

All of regular columns from Morgan Godfery, Matthew Hooton, Angella Dravid and Madeleine Holden.

Profiles of Crystal Choi and Dalton Papalii.

The lowdown on Auckland’s ghost kitchens; where to eat panipopo in Auckland; a definitive ranking of all the anchovies we could get our hands on; restaurant reviews of Mela, Stanley Ave, Prego and Ghost Street.

How fantasy writer Steff Green turned self-publishing into a six-figure income; new art gallery Coastal Signs; bets on the Walter’s Prize; Lana Lopesi on the internet; Rose Lu on mechanical keyboards; Anna Rankin on All Tito’s Children; my life in clothes with Sian & Tina Kolose; Vladmir Putin and more.

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In the Spring 2025 issue of Metro: Find out where to eat now in Tāmaki Makaurau with our top 50 restaurants, plus all the winners from Metro Restaurant of the Year. Henry Oliver picks at the seams of the remaking of the New Zealand fashion scene. Matthew Hooton puts the exceptional talent for Kiwi whinging on blast and Tess Nichol recounts her ongoing efforts not to pay attention to everything. Plus Anna Rankin pens a love letter to the 20th Century, a short story from Saraid de Silva and Bob Harvey assists the walls of Hotel DeBrett in talking. Oh, and last, but not least, it’s the end of an era.

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